Sunday, November 13, 2011
Was this Saturn? still trying to learn how to properly read star charts?
So I went out for night of stargazing with the hopes of finding some good markers like Ursa Major, Leo, Draco and Polaris. It was my hopes that by finding them and locating Venus that I would be able to find Saturn. the seeing wasn't very good as the sky was mottled with clouds and it got cold super fast so I couldn't stay out past 21:45 when it really would get dark. Hopefully if I describe what I sketched you might be able to tell me if I was on the right track. I found Venus and it was west about 40 degrees up in the sky and following ones finger towards the left about 30 degrees was a star and then going upward at a slight leftward angle for about 45 degrees was a yellowish non twinkling light. I took a photo of it and it was spheroid like venus but a little bit more oblong but couldn't get much detail because I was only using my 8mp camera on tripod with 150mm lens. It wasn't dark enough to see where it fell in rel to the constellations but do you think it was Saturn?
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